California Government Code 19994.33 – (a) The State Department of Health Services may develop …
(a) The State Department of Health Services may develop guidelines for the content and effective presentation of tobacco smoking control programs designed to assist an individual in either a self-help or group environment. The guidelines may be distributed to state agencies. The State Department of Health Services may provide a copy of the guidelines to any individual or group, upon request, and may charge a fee that shall not exceed the actual cost of producing a copy.
(b) State agencies may offer tobacco smoking control programs to their employees. A state agency may use existing employee training funds to pay for the presentation of tobacco smoking control programs offered to state employees at a state-owned or state-leased building during normal work hours.
Terms Used In California Government Code 19994.33
- Building: means a building owned and occupied, or leased and occupied, by the state. See California Government Code 19994.30
- Department: means the Department of Human Resources. See California Government Code 19815
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18
- state agency: means a state agency, as defined pursuant to Section 11000, the Legislature, the Supreme Court and the courts of appeal, and each California Community College campus and each campus of the California State University and the University of California. See California Government Code 19994.30
- State employee: means an employee of a state agency. See California Government Code 19994.30
(c) Not later than January 31, 1994, and thereafter upon initial employment, each state agency shall inform its employees about the smoking prohibition contained in Section 7597, areas where smoking is permitted, and the availability of tobacco smoking control programs.
(d) Enrollment in a tobacco smoking control program by any state employee shall be voluntary.
(Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 342, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 2004.)